The shock of the meeting triremes was tremendous, and in a moment the poor little hydrophobes were spluttering in the pond: […]
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Hydrophobe
Synonyms for "hydrophobe" (2 found)
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Italian
1 entries- idrofobo noun (hydrophobic compound or material)
Polish
1 entries- hydrofob noun (hydrophobic compound or material)
Sample sentences
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If I talk to 10 people, there is usually a fellow hydrophobe among them. It is hard to pick them out, because a person who is afraid of water looks very much like a normal person. But, from talking with fellow hydrophobes, I have discovered something we almost all share: more times than not, our fear of water stems from one intensely bad experience that came during our childhoods.
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